Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment Henry Blackmer had put off for 25 years. His fists clenched, the half-blind, old oil millionaire last week stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer...
...justice would be served by sentencing the defendant to jail," said the judge. Instead he fined Blackmer $20,000. Blackmer's attorney whipped out two $10,000 cashier's checks, drawn on a New York bank, and paid the fine. Old Henry Blackmer walked out of the courtroom, a free man-not exactly vindicated, but at least paid...
Arthur Maass, assistant professor of Government, yesterday afternoon urged the Law School Citizens Committee on the Hoover Committee Report "to expose the lobbies which are opposing the Hoover proposals." He was speaking at the Langdell Hall Courtroom at a meeting sponsored by the Committee and the Law School Record...
...informal. In the corridors of Jefferson County's big stone courthouse, the gossip and laughter were loud. There were strike-idled coal miners and old men who shave only once every three days and carry canes. Klansmen posed for pictures smiling broadly, friend-ly-like. Inside the courtroom, mild old Judge Robert J. Wheeler fingered his speckled white mustache. Occasionally he spat delicately into his cuspidor...
Last week, in a musty military courtroom in Yokohama, 27-year-old Satano rose to be sentenced by a five-man military tribunal. Just before the sentence was pronounced, the defendant's mother presented the embarrassed U.S. prosecutor with a bouquet of flowers. The court had decided that there were mitigating circumstances in Satano's case-mainly the fact that he had killed under orders. The sentence: five years' imprisonment. The defendant sighed happily with relief...